Streamline body for motor vehicles with air-cooled rear engines



Aug. 29, 1939. I M v 2,171,092

STREAMLINE BODY FOR MOTOR VEHICLES WITH AIR-COOLED REAR ENGINES FiledAug. 6, 1938 Patented Aug. 29, 1939 STREAMLINE WITH AIR- CO OLED' BODYFOR MOTOR VEHICLES REAR ENGINES Milos Klavik, Koprivnice, Czechoslovakia1938, Serial No. 223,547 In Czechoslovakia August 16, 1937 ApplicationAugust 6,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to those bodies for motor vehicles withair-cooled rear engines, which are provided with a partition behind theseats of a height which is approximately the same as 5 the height of thefront windscreen, said partition being provided with openings for thesupply of air to the engine chamber which is closed on at the rear bythe partition.

According to the present invention, for this 10 kind of body, acollapsible (folding) hood or roof is arranged so that in its extendedcondition the air-supply openings can be shut out over the end of thehood behind the seats, a small auxiliary hood terminating over theopenl5 ings and merging into the rear cover but forming a passagethrough which the necessary air is supplied to said openings.

A constructional example of the subject of the aplication is showndiagrammatically in the 20 accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 shows the hood folded and Figure 2 shows the hood extended.

As will be seen from the drawing, the space for the occupants isconfined forwardly by a 5 windscreen l and rearwardly by a partition 2gine.

3 for the supply of air to the en- 2 is formed at its upper which arestored the and the auxiliary hood 6. Upon the hood being extended, theend 1 of hood 5 is stretched behind the seats, so that there is formedhood 6 a passage 8 to the openings 3.

between said hood 5 and the auxiliary through which the air flows Uponfolding the hood, the

end 'I of the hood 5 is placed over the hoods so that it will not coverthe openings 3.

I claim:

An open streamline body for motor vehicles with air-cooled rear engine,comprising a windscreen,

a closed engine chamber, seats, a partition closing said engine chamberfrom said seats and provided with slot openings for admitting air forcooling, a two-part hood, one part of said hood extending from thewindscreen to the other part forming a continuation of the hood wherebya passage is formed between the two hood parts for ingress of air to theslot openings.

MILOQ KLAVIK.

